Questions tagged [formatting]
Questions about how to format a file with vim - this includes, but is not limited to, foldings, indents, wrappings, and so on.
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How to range format with nvim 0.9.0?
I don't set a mapping to format code because it is not something I do all the time. So previously, I used to have a command to format or range format as follows:
" format code
command! -range ...
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How to format text with gq by cutting long lines but without joining shorter lines?
I don't understand what shall I set (I guess fo, but how?) for cutting lines that are longer than textwidth but without joining lines that are shorter.
For example, assume that I have textwidth option ...
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How can I write a custom formatexpr to specify the point at which 'gq' wraps?
I don't want VIM to automatically wrap text, so setting textwidth is not a solution to this problem.
This comment gives a useful outline, but I'm not really sure how to go about doing this. My first ...
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Manually indenting lines with tabs
Lines can be indented with tab characters. And it is quite obvious the there are better ways to do that than manually adding a tab character to the beginning of each line.
But how to discover these ...
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How can I auto-format long function calls in Python?
I am a Python programmer using Vim. When writing a long function call, it often exceeds the width of my document:
a_long_python_function(with_some, additional, arguments, kwarg1=kwarg1, kwarg2=kwarg2, ...
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Neovim `vim.lsp.buf.format{async=true}` cause buffer change?
I am using autocmd BufWritePre to do code format with vim.lsp.buf.format().
It is sync and stuck for seconds. But when I use vim.lsp.buf.format{async=true}. The buffer is been changed.
Is there a way ...
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How to create a (lua) function to run a particular command in the shell on the currently open file, within neovim
If I'm working on a file I might want to run a particular command which uses the file within the shell.
Example - running black (python formatter) on an open file.
Ideally I'd like to be able to enter ...
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Insert-mode gqip not idempotent?
I open Vim and add the following lines to a buffer (call this state INITIAL):
xx xx xxx xx xxxx xx xxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx x xxxxx xxx xxxx xxx x
xx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xx x xxx xx xxx ...
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What does breakat&vim mean?
I'm trying to understand this SO answer. The snippet reads:
:set nolist wrap linebreak breakat&vim
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How are formatters in CoC configured?
I have been using CoC for a few weeks now and I quite like it. Recently I started configuring the formatting options. I have put "coc.preferences.formatOnSave": true and configured .clang-...
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How to get softtabstop to go back in spaces with backspace? [duplicate]
I watched a video tutorial about optimising tabs vs spaces. I made no changes but I noticed something in the video that isn't happening for me.
When he pressed backspace, he went back one space at a ...
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Customising file formating and coding styles in vim?
At the moment I use prettier for formatting with vim (via Coc). The issue I have is that prettier is opinionated and, at the same time, inconsistent.
With javascript, functions look like this:
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Convert a column of words to a paragraph
How can I convert a column of words (one word per line) to a paragraph using vim?
For example, before:
how
to
convert
After:
how to convert
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How to configure Neoformat to use Prettier?
Installed Neoformat with Plug in init.vim for Neovim 0.7.2 on Linux Mint 19.3
I can't figure out how to get Neoformat to work with Prettier.
I installed Prettier as a snap package in --devmode, so ...
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Avoid breaking words before or after asterisk ('*')
If you have set wrap, sometimes you can see something like this:
5. A soft-wrapped line with an *
italic* word.
I would prefer Vim to not soft-wrap before or after asterisks, and so the same ...
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Vim: reformat CSS from one-line to multi-line rules
I wanted to reformat the W3.CSS file to make it more readable and study it.
I looked for an easy way to do this but couldn't find it (in vim-only way, obviously, the web are plenty of solutions and ...
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YAML / YML unwanted auto-formatting
YAML / YML unwanted auto-formatting
The last days I made some configuration improvements of my vim environment, e.g. I installed vim-polyglot and coc and removed duplicated plugins within my vim-plug ...
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How can I align chained methods in Ruby files?
I often use = to indent lines but my configuration doesn't fit my needs.
Is there an option that indent lines like this:
'vim rocks'.capitalize
.concat(' !')
Instead of this:
'vim rocks'....
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How to configure neovim to properly format python code?
I have neovim 0.8.0 installed.
I have neovim/nvim-lspconfig plugin installed.
I have installed pyright language server on my system (pip install pyright)
I have configured neovim to use the pyright ...
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How to paste append and verical aligment multiple lines text in vim?
Is there any convenient way to format text block-1 to block-2 by vim?
block-1
#include <stdio.h>
#include "math.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <...
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Prevent breaking at commas followed by tildes with `gq`
When I add m to formatoptions and have nonzero textwidth, Vim will insert line breaks after commas followed by tildes when I do gq in Normal mode. In my case, Vim sometimes inserts a line break at ...
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Is there a way to let sqlformat or another SQL formatter change only a selection within a file in VIM?
I added a shortcut in VIM so that I can press Esc and ,pt to get the automatic sql formatting from sqlformat command.
Taken from Can VIM autoindent SQL?.
"autocmd FileType sql call SqlFormatter()
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How to see offscreen undo changes?
Imagine a text file with some words on the first line, one-thousand blank lines, and some text on the last line.
this is a first line of text.
<1000 blank lines>
Last line of text.
From the ...
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Reformatting comments with gq, using spaces in 'comments'
I'm using Prettier to automatically reformat JavaScript (well, TypeScript, but same deal in this situation) source-code.
It enforces a comment-style like this, with leading spaces replaced with ·:
···/...
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Is there a soft/visual textwrap equivalent option? [duplicate]
I like textwidth, except that it inserts EOL characters, and that breaks what I consider to be a sentence. I'd like to go back to having a long sentence be a long sentence, but I want it visually ...
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Piping buffer through a command, handling failure gracefully
I want to be able to lint my code from within vim, using tools like clang-format and yapf and I'd rather do this without installing a more complex plugin.
I can pipe the current buffer through a text ...
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How to syntax-highlight part of a file in a foreign language?
Using set syntax=lang we can override syntax highlighting of current buffer with lang.
Suppose we're editing a Bash script and some string variables are actually HTML code. How to force vim to use ...
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Paste a column in a table
Suppose I have this file open in Vim:
AXXK M(X)
1.1 1
1.2 8
And that the clipboard holds
U(1X)
MX1
MX2
How can I easily paste that content as a new column? I want:
AXXK M(X) U(1X)
1.1 1 ...
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Custom indent minified file
At work I'm forced to work on custom mapping-files which map relations between objects of different systems.
These mappings, which are basically Jinja templates, are unfortunately stored in single ...
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Formatting with gg=G on *.cfg files (Nagios) results in bad indentation
Search-fu power is eluding me for this one.
Have many Nagios (*.cfg) files under audit, using Vim to work on them.
Notice that doing gg=G is not correctly formatting the files or a block if using = ...
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How to get bold comments in vim
I am trying to add bold comments to my vim files. What i mean, is to be able to get something like this:
I saw other articles like this that allow to toggle bold comment.
The proposed solutions from ...
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Make Line Numbers Appear in Documentation
I have set number in my init.vim (I am using neovim) and it works fine for any buffers I'm editing. However, I have to enter :set number into the command line to make line numbers appear in the ...
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vimscript to insert function result is not inserting with proper formatting
I have a function that I want returning pre-indented xml:
function! InsertStep()
let stepTemplate = "<step index=\"\">\n
\ <description></description>\n
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Vim Formatter vs VsCode Formatter Problem with GIT
I am using Vim (neovim) for the past couple of weeks now.
I am facing one problem with the way vim formats the code.
My other team members uses vscode which formats JS file on Save something like this:...
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Vim formarts postgres wrong
I use vims autoformat feature a lot. But it doesn't work properly for postgres
CREATE TABLE foo (fooid INT, foosubid INT, fooname TEXT);
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (1, 2, 'three');
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (...
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Is it possible to apply formatters only for selected lines using ALE Vim plugin?
I want to format only a part of file and keep the rest unchanged using ALE. I imagine that its kinda possible by providing a fragment of code for example for black formatter and replacing the selected ...
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Vim doesn't respect the initial tab distance of a paragraph
I have lines of text like these (each of one are single lines):
https://i.imgur.com/FIB3Zbj.png
Since those text lines have a lot of words vim distribute the whole single line in several sublines(I ...
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How to configure formatoptions for markdown?
I really like how vim paragraph auto format works for markdown. The one place where it falls flat on its face is when editing/formatting code and log output that I want to put into the markdown (maybe ...
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Using cindent and/or `gq` to wrap long function arguments to one-per-line
When a line becomes too long, I would like to wrap the function call with a "one argument per line" syntax:
For the example: :set textwidth=50. Given:
long_function_name(argument_one, ...
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Reformatting a tab in vim [closed]
I am new to vim, and I'm facing an interesting problem. I need to reformat a file so that the indentation is consistent. How do I do this?
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More intelligent automatic formatting
I use vim to edit latex files and the automatic formatting option (formatoptions+=a) works very well, since you can enter text anywhere in the paragraph and vim will reformat the entire paragraph.
The ...
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Vim Markdown treat fenced codeblock as comment
I use a rather nifty automatic text formatting for Markdown:
(Seen https://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#X61)
augroup TXT | au!
autocmd FileType asciidoc,markdown
\ setlocal autoindent expandtab ...
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How to format files on save using black with neovim and coc
I'm trying to have python files format on save using black and neovim, with coc.
Coc config
I have the following coc config:
{
"coc.preferences.useQuickfixForLocations": true,
"coc....
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How to format a JSON snippet in a non-JSON file using jq?
I've got, in this case, a Perl module which has some JSON snippets inside of it. I'd like to be able to select the embedded JSON and format it via jq. So far I've got:
:vnoremap jq <esc>:'<,'...
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Get comments LINED UP in 65c816 asm syntax [duplicate]
I've been writing some 65c816 assembly lately. They have some interesting commenting conventions that I was hoping VIM could help me with.
LDA $E7 ; You see, they
BEQ IfZero ...
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How to disable auto insertion of comment header when pressing enter, but keep auto insertion of header when auto wrapping comment?
When editing c and cpp files, this is the behavior I want to achieve:
When typing a comment line of the form // Line..., pressing <CR> should not add the comment header // in the next line.
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Autoindent unordered lists that start with a hyphen in cpp files
The context
I've the following options in my vimrc
set formatoptions=cnroqj
set textwidth=80
When editing tex files, lines whose content is longer than &textwidth is
splitted and formatted as ...
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How to join or format paragraphs in a file quickly
When I want to share my markdown file to others, I would like to join lines or format lines for all paragraphs in my file quickly.
File in formatted version:
# head 1
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ...
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Unintended automatic join behavior and move in editting
I have to following lines in my .vimrc file (being .vimrc is irrelevant, other files the same),
noremap D "_d
"Make Y behave like other capitals (C, D)
nnoremap Y y$
When I started to delete "_d ...
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Reformat code: breaking lines and aligning on a character
I am writing code in R, specifically using the Tidyverse packages. There is extensive use of the pipe %>% to chain functions together. The lines become long, so it is recommended to break them up ...
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